This provides a vibrant mix of orange and sunshine-yellow daisies, tempered by warm-brown centres, from June until October. Every striped flower differs slightly in pattern and colour and appears to shimmer in the border, outshining other drabber heleniums.
There are about 40 species of helenium in North and Central America. 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' is probably a hybrid of varieties bred from two of them, H. autumnale and H. bigelovii.
The former is a tall plant (4ft-6ft/1.2m-1.8m), which grows widely, from Quebec to Florida and from British Columbia to Arizona, in damp places. It is known as common sneezeweed because the Cherokee Indians used to make the dried flowers into a herbal snuff as a cure for colds and catarrh. H. bigelovii is a shorter, deep-yellow species found growing in wet places on pine forest slopes from California to Oregon.
Heleniums for all colour palettes
Although many helenium varieties are the work of breeders such as Karl Foerster and Alan Bloom, spontaneous crosses do occur. 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' was found as a seedling in a bed containing a seed mixture called 'Autumn Leaves' at the Sahin trial grounds in Zeeland, Holland.
Other varieties worth considering for their long flower periods are:
- El Dorado
- Waltraut
- Rauchtopas
- Moerheim Beauty
Advice on growing Heleniums
Special perennials talk to Carol Klein of Gardeners World about good varieties and advice on growing Heleniums.
Partners to plant alongside Heleniums are as follows:
- Echinacea
- Salvia's e.g. Salvia Caradonna
- Hemerocallis
- Geums
- Monarda
- Papaver
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Scented Echinacea
Echinacea come in a range of colours and strains some of which are scented. These varieties are ideal for partnering with roses and other late flowering summer stalwarts. Unlike most perennials the scent is released at night.
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Episode details: Fiona has always had a passion for nature and a real understanding of its importance in her scientific work. She brings that passion to GSK with the belief that by helping nature, we can improve the development of our medicines and vaccines, many of which rely upon the natural world.
Episode details: Fiona has always had a passion for nature and a real understanding of its importance in her scientific work. She brings that passion to GSK with the belief that by helping nature, we can improve the development of our medicines and vaccines, many of which rely upon the natural world.
Episode details: Fiona has always had a passion for nature and a real understanding of its importance in her scientific work. She brings that passion to GSK with the belief that by helping nature, we can improve the development of our medicines and vaccines, many of which rely upon the natural world.
Episode details: Fiona has always had a passion for nature and a real understanding of its importance in her scientific work. She brings that passion to GSK with the belief that by helping nature, we can improve the development of our medicines and vaccines, many of which rely upon the natural world.
Episode details: Fiona has always had a passion for nature and a real understanding of its importance in her scientific work. She brings that passion to GSK with the belief that by helping nature, we can improve the development of our medicines and vaccines, many of which rely upon the natural world.
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